After a #CancelColbert campaign went viral following a Twitter mishap, Stephen Colbert returned to his Comedy Central series on Monday to proclaim that he's #NotCanceled.

"The Interwebs tried to swallow me whole," Colbert said Monday following a bad dream sketch in which his show went dark. "But I'm proud to report that I got lodged in its throat and it hacked me back up like a hastily chewed chicken wing. ... folks, I'm still here."

The brouhaha began on March 27, when the Comedy Central Twitter account for the program, @ColbertReport, tweeted a line from that night's show without any context.

"I am willing to show the #Asian community I care by introducing the Ching Chong Ding Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever," the tweet read, which was a comment Colbert made during his mocking of Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder's intent to launch a foundation to aid Native Americans.

The offensive tweet, which didn't include a link to the full sketch, drew ire from all corners of the Internet and was the reason #CancelColbert began to trend.

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daechoongmama

The words and the caricature he portrayed was going too far, especially because I've experienced racism, and Ching Chong Ding Dong was an all too familiar medium used to make me feel less. I know he didn't mean it but nonetheless I was offended and affected by it. Then seeing how the whole thing played out compounded my feelings. Here is my take as an Asian American: